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Nomination of François de Combret as member of Nexans Board of Directors

Paris, May 18, 2006 - The Annual Shareholders' Meeting of Nexans, held on May 15, 2006, and presided by Gérard Hauser, Chairman and CEO, approved the nomination of François de Combret as a new member of the Board of Directors of Nexans.

François de Combret, age 64, is senior advisor to UBS Bank. He is a board member of Renault, Safran and Bouygues Telecom and chairman of the board of Musée Rodin.After graduating from ENA, François de Combret started his career as auditor at the "Cour des Comptes", the French State Audit Office. He then worked as advisor for Economic and Industrial affairs to Valéry Giscard d'Estaing, first at the Ministry of Finances (1971-1974) and then at the Elysée Palace (1974-78), when Valéry Giscard d'Estaing was elected President of the State. François de Combret was then named Deputy Head of Staff of the President.After being hired by Banque Lazard in 1982, François de Combret spent three years in New York before being appointed managing partner of the bank in Paris in 1985, a function that he held for twenty years before joining UBS on January 1st, 2006.

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Nexans is the worldwide leader in the cable industry. The Group brings an extensive range of advanced copper and optical fiber cable solutions to the infrastructure, industry and building markets. Nexans cables and cabling systems can be found in every area of people’s lives, from telecommunications and energy networks, to aerospace, automotive, railways, building, petrochemical, medical applications, etc. With an industrial presence in 29 countries and commercial activities worldwide, Nexans employs 20,000 people and had sales in 2005 of 5.4 billion euros. Nexans is listed on the Paris stock exchange. More information on www.nexans.com